In this ppt some points are highlighted regarding how agriculture plays an important role in economic sector . what are the types of challenges faced by the farmers

1. The role of agriculture in economic development
Done by,
Prakhar gupta
Rahmah
Priyanshu sharma

2. Table of contents
• Introduction
• Agriculture in india
• THE ROLE OF AGRICULTURE IN ECONOMIC GROWTH
• Milestone
• MAJOR CHALLENGES FACING AGRICULTURAL
SECTOR IN INDIA

3. Introduction
• About 75% people are living in rural areas and are still
dependent on Agriculture.
• About 43% of India’s geographical area is used for agricultural
activity.
• Agriculture continues to play a major role in Indian Economy.
• Provides food to more than 1 billion people
• Produces 51 major crops
• Contributes to 1/6th of the Export Earnings

4. Agriculture in india
• Total Geographical Area - 328 million hectares
• Net Area sown - 142 million hectares
• Gross Cropped Area – 190.8 million hectares
• Net Irrigated Area – 56.9 million hectares

5. THE ROLE OF AGRICULTURE IN
ECONOMIC GROWTH
• Agriculture plays a crucial role in the economy of developing
countries, and provides the main source of food, income and
employment to their rural populations.
• agriculture accounts for 39.4% of the GDP and that 43% of all
exports consist of agricultural goods

6. Milestone
• Acquiring more land area for cultivation purpose
• Expanding irrigation facilities
• Use of improved and advanced variety of seeds
• Water management
• Protection activities

7. • Implementation of better tools and
techniques as a result of research.
• Production increased 50% from 1967 to
1971 in jus four years.

8. INDIA IN WORLD OF AGRICULTURE
• Largest Producer of Milk, Cashew nuts,
Coconuts, Tea, Ginger, Turmeric & Black
Pepper.
• Largest Cattle population-281 million
• Second largest producer of Wheat, Rice,
Sugar and Groundnut and Pulses.

9. • Third largest producer of Tobacco.
• Third largest in implementation of
Mechanization

10. strengths
• Rich Bio Diversity- 46,000 plant species and
86,000 species of animals recorded.
• Arable Land- 428 million acres cultivable land.
• Climate- Favorable all year around (Unlike USA,
Europe and China where farming is possible only 5
to 6 months a year).

11. MAJOR CHALLENGES FACING
AGRICULTURAL SECTOR IN INDIA
1.) Inadequate transport:
• One of the main handicaps with Indian agriculture is the
lack of cheap and efficient means of transportation. Even at
present there are lakhs of villages which are not well connected
with main roads or with market centres.
• Most roads in the rural areas are Kutcha (bullock- cart roads)
and become useless in the rainy season. Under these
circumstances the farmers cannot carry their produce to the
main market and are forced to sell it in the local market at low
price.

12. 2.) seeds
• Seed is a critical and basic input for attaining higher crop
yields Unfortunately, good quality seeds are out of reach of the
majority of farmers, especially small and marginal farmers mainly
because of exorbitant prices of better seeds
• In order to solve this problem, the Government of India established
the National Seeds Corporation (NSC) in 1963 and the State Farmers
Corporation of India (SFCI) in 1969. Thirteen State Seed Corporations
(SSCs) were also established to augment the supply of improved seeds
to the farmers.

13. 3.) Agriculture marketing
• Agricultural marketing still continues to be in a bad shape in rural India the
farmers have to depend upon local traders and middlemen for the disposal of
their farm produce which is sold at very low price .
• In most cases, these farmers are forced, under socio-economic conditions, to
carry on distress sale of their produce. In most of small villages, the farmers
sell their produce to the money lender from whom they usually borrow
money.

14. SOURCE OF REVENUE FOR THE
GOVERNMENT
• Through the direct contribution of agricultural taxes to the
central & state government is not significant, they get a
significant part of their total revenue in terms of land revenue,
irrigation charges, taxes imposed on the commodities
purchased by the cultivators etc. central government also earns
revenue from export duties.

15. Steps taken by government to improve Indian agriculture
• Many new grammen and coooeratives bank were
established by banking sector to provide loan
facilities to farmer at low rate of interest.
• Green revolution and white revolution operation
flood were aimed at to increase the productivity.
• Kissan credit card was introduced for purchasing
of inputs required for agriculture like seeds,
machines.

16. • To encourage the farmers to use modern methods
of agriculture govt.
• It provides various subsides rates for inputs like
irrigation, power and, fertilizerd etc.
• Another important input was the widespread use of
radio and television for acquainting farmers in new
and improved techniques of cultivation
• The crop insurance was another step to protect the
farmers against losses caused by crop failure

17. Our contribution in agriculture sector
• We are planning to make a website that will help
farmers to sell their crops and grains in very efficient
price .
• This will help farmers to get linked with customers in
urban areas
• There will be no merchants and traders between
farmers and the customers .

18. CONCLUSION
• On over all view, India has always been benefited by
AGRICULTURE.
• Though the future of India is industrialization, the contribution
of agriculture would always prove to be vital for making India
a powerful & stable economy in the future.

19. Reference
• https://www.jstor.org/stable/1812786?seq=1#metadata_info_
tab_contents
• http://www.ripublication.com/ijafst_spl/ijafstv4n4spl_11.pdf
• https://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:jcmt&vo
lume=7&issue=2&article=001